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Marble Arch in London. Designed by John Nash in 1825, based on Arch of Constantine in Rome and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris and made of white Carrara marble. It was originally located in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace but dismantled in 1850 when the Palace was extended and moved to it's current location in 1851. Three small rooms inside the rebuilt arch were used as a police station from 1851 until at least 1968. It firstly housed the royal constables of the Park and later the Metropolitan Police's Central Traffic Control Centre. One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel Parkes, who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War.
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Marble Arch in London. Designed by John Nash in 1825, based on Arch of Constantine in Rome and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris and made of white Carrara marble. It was originally located in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace but dismantled in 1850 when the Palace was extended and moved to it's current location in 1851. Three small rooms inside the rebuilt arch were used as a police station from 1851 until at least 1968. It firstly housed the royal constables of the Park and later the Metropolitan Police's Central Traffic Control Centre. One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel Parkes, who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War.